ALT Image: succulents up close surrounded by a neon yellow-green border Text: Monocle remember when we lived in the shrubs? stewed in a shared room. its stench. our own ripeness torturing lungs scored elastic. mulika ojikutu-harnett

ALT Image: bedsheet ghosts in a field surrounded by a pale grey border Text: My Dead He reads aloud about visiting the Underworld in dreams, seeing his dead again. Through the big window behind him there's a flowerbed and some long grass; a road with not much traffic; and on the far side a strip of whins and conifer trees - the rough. Judith Taylor

ALT Image: two figs hanging from a tree surrounded by a brown border Text: Grandfather/ Grandson I will feed him snatches of song like sips of water, nudge him back to the track whenever he flags and falters. Dave Wakely

ALT Part section of word and image consisting of a collage of shredded brightly coloured paper, with the cut out text (see below) superimposed. It's valuable vulnerable work telling the truth in all its beautiful horror Social media text: National Poetry Day 'Wonder' Word & Image Nina Nazir

ALT Image: a hand reaching out to a wall with a cream background Text: Neveralways Always keeps it to himself Never looks for it Always tightly clutches it Never says it Always holds it Never it Always it Never Always Philip Athans

ALT Image: an assortment of. buckets surrounded by a dark blue border Text: My bucket doesn’t have a list and it’s never been kicked Even on the really bad days when the mocking shine of its metal body has tempted my foot to make contact, something about this ambivalence carrier makes me take a beat and reconsider. Tracey Pearson